Jack Failure Disaster
I had a terrible experience yesterday when I tried to unload my camper which resulted in my camper falling over on its side in my front yard. It happened so fast I'm not exactly sure where it went wro...
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silversand wrote:
Without doing an on-site forensic, did the legs lower onto a thick mat of long-leaf pine needles (I've slid badly on pine needles in the past)? If the jack's landing pads were lowered onto the teflon-like slippy needles on hard packed ground, they (one landing pad) could have just slipped out (like walking on ice), and caused a cascade of instability with the other pads/legs, and the weak point, the jack attachments, just let go one at a time (even well connected)....Just a thought....
joerg68 wrote:
I have personally watched the third leg of a three legged camper loosing footing on a patch of ice and folding under ... with much the same result.
I think the solution is in this line of thinking....it may not have been necessarily a weak jack attaching point but could have been a lack of traction with the jack plate that cause it to slide, placing way too much lateral force on the mounting point and leading to a cascading overload event?
